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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 STEVEN FOSTER STILES, et al., No. 2:23-cv-02537-KJM-CKD (PS) Plaintiffs, v. ORDER 14 ANDREA MARIA CASANOVA, et al., 15 Defendants.

18 Plaintiff,1 proceeding without counsel, initiated this action with a civil complaint filed on November 3, 2023, 2023. (ECF No. 1.) On January 22, 2024, plaintiff filed a motion for temporary restraining order which the Clerk’s Office entered to the docket the following day, on January 23, 2024. (ECF No. 43.) This action proceeds before the undersigned pursuant to Local Rule 302(c)(21). See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Venue does not lie in this district. For the following reasons, the court will transfer this action to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

1 Multiple plaintiffs are listed on plaintiff’s complaint but only plaintiff Stiles signed the complaint. (See ECF No. 1 at 38.) As a non-lawyer, Stiles cannot represent other plaintiffs. See Johns v. County of San Diego, 114 F.3d…